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Advice for Academic Writers

What are book editors looking for? Dedi Felman, an executive editor at Oxford University Press, sums it up in this Chronicle of Higher Education piece. Much of the advice seems applicable even outside academe: “Avoid abstraction”; “Understand the true beginning of your story”; “Understand the end of the story”; and more.

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About Erika

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Erika Dreifus is a reader, writer, and literary advocate whose next book, Birthright: Poems, will be published by Kelsay Books in fall 2019. She is also the editor and publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter that features opportunities and resources for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.